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  2. AGREEMENT AT COAL CONFERENCE. Compromise Basis.

    The conference between the colliery proprietors and the mining unions yesterday reached an agreement for the settlement of the coal dispute. The agreement provides for the acceptance by the unions ...

    Article : 221 words
  3. ENDOWMENT TAX.

    The Government has not yet decided definitely the method to be adopted in raising the necessary endowment tax to be paid by employers engaging employees under State ...

    Article : 444 words
  4. £1,250,000.

    For the immediate relief of unemployment throughout the Commonwealth the Federal Ministry is proposing to make available approximately £1,250,000 in the ...

    Article : 769 words
  5. SHARES FALL.

    The investment market on the Stock Exchange underwent a change yesterday, when the decision of the directors of the Bank of New South Wales not to pay a bonus to ...

    Article : 284 words
  6. RADIO INVENTION.

    The day is near at hand when Empire newspapers will be published simultaneously in London, Capetown, Sydney, Montreal, and Calcutta. This was one of the many amazing ...

    Article : 175 words
  7. MANCHURIA. U.S. Move.

    The United States Government has formally sounded the British. Japanese, Italian, and German Governments, with a view to ...

    Article : 49 words
  8. THE ANTARCTIC.

    The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that, after a year's consideration, the United States Government has responded to the British Note of November 17, ...

    Article : 549 words
  9. JOINT COMMISSION PROPOSED.

    The Nanking Foreign Office announces the receipt of a telegram from the Chinese Minister in Germany, intimating the submission of a proposal ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. GOVERNMENT IN DANGER.

    Excitement arose in the House of Commons during the committee stage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill, when the Conservatives decided to support a Liberal amendment ...

    Article : 105 words
  11. DOOR GUARDED.

    Several shareholders who endeavoured to enter the annual meeting of Motor and Cash Orders, Ltd., at the King's Hall yesterday morning had the undignified experience ...

    Article : 785 words
  12. STUD SHEEP EMBARGO.

    A questionnaire sent to principal breeders indicates that no centre is perturbed by the Australian embargo on the exportation or stud sheep. On the contrary, all are agreed ...

    Article : 157 words
  13. TIN PRODUCERS.

    At a meeting of the recently-formed Tin Producers' Association yesterday, at which Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister presided, a scheme for the regulation of supplies, which had been ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. THE CONFERENCE.

    The delegates commenced their deliberations at noon, at the offices of the Northern Collieries' Association, in Kembla Building. Although they resumed at half-past 2, it ...

    Article : 797 words
  15. MR. WEAVER.

    The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) denied in the Legislative Assembly yesterday that he had resigned from the Ministry last week, and, after consultation with the Premier, ...

    Article : 328 words
  16. WAR LOAN STOCK.

    A number of questions were asked to-day in the House of Commons regarding a statement which was made in the course of a debate on the Unemployment Insurance Bill ...

    Article : 274 words
  17. WOOLLEN CLOTHING.

    Nine European nations are represented at the International Wool Conference, which was opened at Bradford by Mr. Douglas Hamilton, president of the Bradford Chamber of ...

    Article : 160 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN TARIFFS.

    The "Star," in an editorial, says: "Australia has banged, barred, and boited the door against Imperial free trade, dropping this dream, as must the British tariff advocates, ...

    Article : 361 words
  19. "FLASH JACK."

    During recent months an interstate crook, known to the police of several States as "Flash Jack," has secured hundreds of pounds by posing as a capitalist and by passing ...

    Article : 288 words
  20. ELECTRICITY BOARD.

    A deputation from the Citizens' Reform Association yesterday appealed to the Premier (Mr. Bavin) to appoint a board of management to control the city electricity ...

    Article : 449 words
  21. AUSTRALIAN ACQUITTED.

    Charles Grant Lawson, who was charged with being implicated with two other men in the robbery of £34,500 from a Jamaican banana planter, reappeared at Clerkenwell ...

    Article : 123 words
  22. THE RAILWAYS. Why They are Non-paying.

    Mr. J. Fraser, the retiring Chief Commissioner of Railways, was given a farewell on his last day of service yesterday by the Commercial Travellers' Association. ...

    Article : 222 words
  23. MR. SCULLIN'S STATEMENT.

    "It is impossible for me to comment on the coal agreement until I have had an opportunity of appreciating the real significance of the terms of settlement," Mr. Scullin ...

    Article : 143 words
  24. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.

    Asked in the House of Commons if he would not sign the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty till he received the Commonwealth Government's consent, the Prime Minister (Mr. MacDonald) ...

    Article : 159 words
  25. FUTURE OF AIRSHIPS.

    At a luncheon following an inspection of the airship R100, the builder, Sir Charles Burney, said that at that moment she was lifting 100 guests and 30 tons of fuel. The ...

    Article : 142 words
  26. ENGINEDRIVERS.

    The Federated enginedrivers and firemen, having broken away from the combined mining unions' committee on the question of the continued employment of miners at the ...

    Article : 183 words
  27. MOTHER AND CHILD.

    Mrs. Vinden, a visitor from Sydney, and her nine-year-old son, were drowned in Colo Creek this afternoon. The boy was wading in the water when he ...

    Article : 114 words
  28. THIEF'S RUSE.

    Presence of mind and daring saved a car thief from arrest after he had been caught in a car at the University Hotel in Parramattaroad, Glebe, shortly before midnight on ...

    Article : 354 words
  29. SPEECH BY MR. CLEARY.

    The farewell yesterday afternoon by employees of Tooth and Co., Ltd., to their retiring general manager (Mr. W. J. Cleary), who has been appointed Chief Railway ...

    Article : 306 words
  30. MR. HUGUES'S PARTY.

    The published announcement of the intentions of Mr. W. M. Hughes to form a new party was responsible for an amusing interlude during question time in the House of ...

    Article : 197 words
  31. CHILD MARRIAGE.

    Thousands of Mohammedans in India to-day observed the Hartal (day of morning) as a protest against the passing of the Child Marriage Bill, which prohibits the marriages ...

    Article : 180 words
  32. ALIENS AND PROPERTY.

    The Paris conference on the treatment of foreigners discussed the Australian delegation's amendment to the convention. This read as follows.—"The contracting parties also ...

    Article : 176 words
  33. JOY AT NEWCASTLE.

    News of the settlement came as a beneficent thunderbolt to Newcastle this evening, and the streets contained a happier Friday night shopping crowd than has been in evidence ...

    Article : 266 words
  34. EFFECT OF REDUCTION.

    In introducing his all-round reduction scheme tor the restoration of the depressed coal stoppage industry—before the closing of the mines—the Premier (Mr. Bavin) said in ...

    Article : 632 words
  35. MASKED MAN.

    Entering a room at the rear of their shop to investigate a noise, Mrs. Marie McIlwraith, 70, and Miss Kate Peterson, 68, her sister, were attacked by a man who was armed and ...

    Article : 110 words
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